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title: At length, forgetting what was due to helpless beauty, to his own ho… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, forgetting what was due to helpless beauty, to his own honour as a knight, and his word as a sovereign, he triumphed over her weakness by base and unmanly violence. Who acts: length, passion, beauty. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Flori
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 70

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At length, forgetting what was due to helpless beauty, to his own honour as a knight, and his word as a sovereign, he triumphed over her weakness by base and unmanly violence.

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**Who acts:** length, passion, beauty · **What happens:** forget, be, triumph, honour, word · **To what, where:** length · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, passion, beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:6:70
# text = At length, forgetting what was due to helpless beauty, to his own honour as a knight, and his word as a sovereign, he triumphed over her weakness by base and unmanly violence.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	triumphed	triumph	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	unmanly	unmanly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | gerund | length *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to beauty's own honour as a knight | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to helpless beauty; what *nsubj*; due *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **triumph** | past | passion |  |  | length |  | over Don's weakness; by base and unmanly violence | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **honour** |  | beauty |  |  |  |  | as a knight | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
| 5 | **word** |  | beauty |  |  |  |  | as a sovereign | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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